Back at the end of October last year I wrote a blog post on why Privacy on the Internet is NOT “binary”. So I thought I would follow up with another blog post discussing the alternative viewpoint – What if it was binary? Well first we need a little context about the Internet and how […]
Posts Categorized: Context
Privacy is a Balance
As I watch the news unfolding about Path (link) and the controversy over accessing my address book, I can’t but shake my head in amazement that people are still missing the point. It’s not that they accessed my data without my permission that’s the problem – it’s that I have no choice in what […]
So you want increased Web Performance & Privacy – Then “Know Before You Go”
… To Send a Response What does that mean? Well in layman’s terms the Web is nothing more than 2 cans and a piece of string. One can (the device) sends a message (request) to the other can (the server). It then responds to the request. And that’s how the Internet works. So […]
Making the Mobile Web Go Faster
Here’s an interesting performance comparison. Bing vs. Google on Sprint’s network in Colorado. I’m going to make the assumption that both companies have brilliant engineers, unlimited budgets for servers, CDN’s etc. Basically anything and everything that can make their page get their faster. So why is Google so much slower than Bing on Mobile? Well […]
A little too much Privacy due to “Do Not Track”
This is interesting. Google has a Web site that can format a Web page for Mobile viewing. You can find the it here – link So I tried running www.sears.com through it. Here’s what happens when you have Do Not Track turned on in your browser. And herein lies the “design flaw”. Cookies are there to […]